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A Textbook Counterinsurgency Document https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1328372282184626176
"[Anarchists] set fires, launched fireworks at authorities and spat in their faces **to draw them into violent confrontations** that made headlines around the world."
Poor cops, lured by crafty anarchists into exacting collective punishment on thousands of people every night...
Poor cops, lured by crafty anarchists into exacting collective punishment on thousands of people every night...
"The anarchists reveled in the limelight. Each night **they would provoke authorities**, who would eventually declare a riot or illegal assembly and start making arrests as protesters fled."
Subtle.
Subtle.
I'd say "white propaganda," but I think people will misunderstand. In this case, I mean "propaganda that makes no attempt to hide its sources." They interviewed a city councilmember, a careerist and another cop. Everything is in the open. But it's propaganda.
Of course there is tension between white anarchists & Black activists (anarchist and otherwise; there are Black anarchists [not in article].) That's to be expected. But it's a story *in the LA Times* precisely to exacerbate those rifts. Which is the only reason this story exists.
#Copaganda starts locally. So, yeah. "Support local journalism" or whatever. https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1324466472987451393?s=20
“I don’t know what their goal is other than just destruction,” said Officer Derek Carmon, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman.
“My hope is that we’ll see less of this, but it’s difficult when you’re dealing with a group of people who don’t want to engage the police in a conversation about change.” - Same actual cop, who is then echoed by a Black Studies professor clearly responding to a prompt.
“Clearly it’s not Black folks going to Commissioner Ryan’s house and busting out his windows,” said Rukaiyah Adams, **chief investment officer for Meyer Memorial Trust, a foundation funding a $25-million racial justice initiative.**
lol. (also like - *should* it be? sounds bad.)
lol. (also like - *should* it be? sounds bad.)
“I don’t think those windows were smashed because they were thinking about my life and the lives of my children,” said Toya Fick, Oregon **executive director of Stand for Children, a nonprofit that advocates for equal opportunity in education.**
lol.
lol.
Touched all the bases of multi-million dollar non-profits, cops and actual city representatives. Shocked to see they disagree with street militancy and were eager to enlist in this COIN project *with a PIO.*
"Dixon also serves as a vice chair of the Multnomah County Democrats."
"Dixon also serves as a vice chair of the Multnomah County Democrats."
Anyway, so it goes. Whatever reconcilable rifts need to be dealt with won't happen in the pages of local birdcage liners. Other rifts - with multi-million dollar non-profits and Democrats - aren't reconcilable and shouldn't be. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
But it's pretty obvious why this is a story in the LA Times (and will be *the narrative,* even though street mobilizations almost always are eventually exhausted by repression, fatigue and um... winter.)
Anyway, add this to the pile of garbage that is and always has been the LA Times. There's a reason people blew it up in 1910 (although Eugene Debs insisted Harrison Otis carried out the bombing himself.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing#cite_note-43
Compare and contrast to other @RichReadReports:
"She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas...She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-19/portland-protest-naked-athena
"She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas...She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-19/portland-protest-naked-athena
